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2nd grade · Math · Unit 11 of 19

Dollars & Cents

Count coins and bills

What your child practices

US money: pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and dollar bills. Counting a handful of coins, making an amount, and word problems with the ¢ and $ signs.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 2.5(A); 2.5(B) · finding the value of a collection of coins and writing it with ¢, $ and the decimal point

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Penny 1¢, nickel 5¢, dime 10¢, quarter 25¢, dollar $1 (100¢).
  2. Count the biggest coins first.
  3. Then count on with the smaller coins.

Example: A quarter, a dime, a nickel and 2 pennies. How much? 25¢, then 35¢, then 40¢. 2 pennies more: 41¢, 42¢. Answer: 42¢

Dollars & Cents in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 11 of 19 in 2nd grade Math, after Arrays and before Shapes.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    How much money is this?

    10¢
    10¢
    5¢
    5¢
    5¢
    1¢
    • 37¢
    • 35¢
    • 31¢
    • 36¢

  2. Question 2

    Make 48¢.

    1¢5¢10¢25¢

  3. Question 3

    Kenji has 3 quarters and 2 nickels. How much money is that?

    • 85¢
    • 90¢
    • 80¢
    • 95¢

  4. Question 4

    How much is one quarter worth?

    • 5¢
    • 10¢
    • 25¢
    • 1¢

  5. Question 5

    How many pennies make a quarter?

    • 26
    • 25
    • 24
    • 30

  6. Question 6

    Which coin is worth the most?

    • 25¢
    • 10¢
    • 5¢

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